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Christ teaches that He will return, and murder EVERY non-Christian across the globe, billions will die. The lake of blood will be miles wide, according to Him, and as deep as a horse's bridle!

Not only that, they can't even have peace in death. Christ will banish them all to Hell, for an eternity of torture, with infinite wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Why do you want to teach this? Just wondering

Jesus says they are wicked, meanwhile, He promises to kill everybody on Earth who won't bow to Him.

That's kinda creepy, don't you think? His promise is to be the greatest murderer of all time (again)

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It's the fundamental flaw of Protestant theology. Hand out ten bibles, absent any further religious instructions, and you get ten different religions. Leave people to stew too long and they just start making up their own Apocrypha - a la Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Texas is already a melting pot of faiths, quite a few of which aren't even Christian. You're going to be demanding teachers read from the Bible to such a wide range of denominations, all with their own priors as to what any of this stuff means.

Like, as a kid, I remember my dad explaining to me that the Sermon on the Mount and the Loaves and Fishes miracle was a lesson on the power of sharing. Jesus took a bit of bread and fish, passed it among the crowd, and then everyone in the crowd helped to pitch in with what they'd brought for themselves. And in the end they had more than what they began with. I've sat in class with people who seriously believe "No, Jesus just magicked up more fish and bread, because DUH it was a miracle". And that's firmly within the Christian spectrum. We're not dragging in Muslims or Hindus or outright born-and-raised Atheists to weigh in.

There's a reason they choose specific passages, and they'll come with specific interpretations as learning goals.

Liberation Theology is cool and good.

Western Protestantism is a psychological cancer.

Or tinder for burning pedophile at the stake

It's the same stupid "If you just inform people, they'll agree with you" liberal magical thinking that gave us Earth Day and Black History Month. Just turned on its head.

If Texas legislators want to do a Jesus Day in school, they're going to get the same bucket of contrarian assholes doing "Jesus Isn't Real: Prove Me Wrong" stunts on the schoolyard lawn. Influence culture is going to twist these efforts in knots, especially when they double down and start making martyrs of smart-aleck tweenagers mogging on the course material out of the reflexive need to push boundaries.

That's not to say this doesn't have a secondary agenda. Someone in the classroom supply business is going to absolutely clean up, selling schools $.10 laminated copies of the Ten Commandments for $50/ea. And we're inevitably going to see the kind of in-group / out-group clustering among privileged families with Christian ideology, resulting in more harsh discipline for non-Christian students and more non-Christian kids getting pushed out of schools for failing to prove their piety.